Hank Sheinkopf

Jan Karski was the hero smuggled into the Warsaw Ghetto by the Polish underground, who delivered an eyewitness report to the allies and FDR. If Karski could speak,it would be our shame. Iran’s allies kill innocents. They have no conscience.

A few wise philosophers, historians, and political scientists have all commented in some very well-known and well-used lines that history repeats itself, or that those who forget history are condemned to repeat it. And they have been proven right, again and again.

There are some debts that remain unpayable. One such obligation is to the Norwegian men and women of the World War II resistance who risked their lives in what became well-documented memories to destroy the Nazi heavy water facilities in their home country.

There are those who might say that international relations have no morality, and that all conduct passes for diplomacy. It is a messy world and some believe threats of force and violence are often sufficient to get one’s way.